Stove-cover lifter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CEAS. E. SEAVEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOVE-COVER LIFTER'.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,737, dated October 31, 1865.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. SEAVEY, of Boston, in the county of Sui'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Fixation of Cover- Lifters, Shovels, or various other Tools to their Handles; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a front view of a cover-lifter provided with a wooden handle. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of it.

In the said drawings, A denotes the coverlifter, and B its handle, the said lifter being formed of iron or metal, while the handle is of wood.

In carrying out my invention I construct the shank a of the lifter with a projection or shoulder, as shown at b in Fig. 2, and I prefer to make such shank prismaticin form in order to prevent it from being easily turned around Within the socket of tbe handle. I form Within the handle a socket, s, ot sufficient size to receive the shank when inserted endwise into such socket and up to the usual shoulder c. After having inserted the shank within the socket I drive into the latter and alongside of the shank, and so as to abut on the shoulder b, a piece of Wood, d, having liquid glue or cement applied to its outside surface, the size of the piece d being sufficient with the shank to ll the socket. Prior to such an application of the shank to the socket of the handle a ferrule, e, may be aftlXed on the upper part ofsuch handle. When the glue or cement may have become set or dry the piece d and the shoulder b will co-operate to maintain the shank in connection with the handle.

Instead of using glue or cement to fasten the piece d in place, it may be held in the socket by means of one or more screws inserted laterally into it and the handle, the latter con nection of it with the socket enabling it and the shank to be more readily removed from the handle whenever it lnay be desirable to disconnect the shank and handle.

What I claim as my invention for the fixation of a cover-lifter, a shovel, or tool to its handle is- The combination and arrangement of the piece l aud the shoulder b with the shank, handle, and 'errule of the lifter, substantially as spe-cied.

CHARLES E. SEAVEY.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, G. H. WAsHEURN. 

